Georgia on My Mind – Can the European Union Cope
On October 20th, 2008, Jolyon Howorth and Jacques Rupnik joined us at Boston University for a debate entitled Georgia on My Mind – Can the European Union Cope?
British scholar of military policy, French history, and European politics, Jolyon Howorth is currently Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Professor Emeritus of European Studies at the University of Bath. Since 2002, Howorth is also a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations – fourteen books and one hundred and eighty journal articles and chapters in books.
Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po in France, Jacques Rupnik is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He’s held positions such as Executive Director of the International Commission for the Balkans, advisor to the former President of the Czech Republic (Vaclav Havel), and Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His areas of expertise include the democratic transition in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and European Integration.
WBUR aired this debate on November 9th, 2008.
